Community Connector Issue 10 - July 2025

Strengthening Community and Cultural Exchange

ALP Liaisons are provided opportunities for training and field participation with natural resource agency staff to increase knowledge sharing and understanding of various activities associated with compliance monitoring, stewardship, and emergency management. The ALP Liaison can then inform community members with sound, objective and reliable information about resource activities and impacts on their traditional territories. By working directly with Liaisons, natural resource agency staff are provided with opportunities to deepen their knowledge of Indigenous people’s cultural values and history in relation to resource development in the area and learn about the communities and people they work with.

Aboriginal Liaison Program Update

2024 marked the 10th anniversary of the Natural Resource Aboriginal Liaison Program (ALP) and we’re grateful to reflect on over a decade of fostering collaboration, mutual respect, and meaningful partnerships between Indigenous communities and natural resource agencies. Established in 2014, the ALP is a partnership between participating First Nations across northern B.C., the BC Energy Regulator (BCER), the Canada Energy Regulator (CER), the BC Oil & Gas Research and Innovation Society (BC OGRIS), and provincial natural resource and emergency management agencies. First Nations participating in the ALP hire a Liaison to act as a facilitator of relationship building and two-way communication between Indigenous communities and government agencies.

ALP Liaisons Murphy Patrick Senior, Lake Babine Nation (left) and Lester Davis, Doig River First Nation (right).

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